Budgeting and Governing Author:Aaron Wildavsky Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues in "Budgeting and Governing", now available in paperback, if you cannot budget,... more » you cannot govern. Wildavsky wrote about budgeting because, in his words, "when a process involves power, authority, culture, consensus, and conflict, it captures a great deal of national political life." Wildavsky was interested in budgeting because of what it could tell us about the classic questions of politics - who gets what, how, and why? - and ultimately, politics is about finding terms for living together in spite of ideological differences.« less